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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
• The great secret known to internists, but still hidden from the general public, is that most things get better by themselves.
  Most things, in fact, are better by morning. -- Lewis Thoma...
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. -- Thomas Carlyle
• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity. -- Carlyle
• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
  -- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque", 1881...
• Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Life of Frederick the Great, Book xvi, Chap. i...
• Heroism- the divine relation which in all times unites a great men to other men. -- Carlyle